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Thu. 4/10/14 9:53am
Greg from Bloomfield:
Joe I forgot my headphones but the other day I found some old headphones and I said I should put these old headphones in my bag so they're there in case I forget my good headphones so I DO have headphones WHEW!

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Thu. 4/10/14 10:23am
Ike:
Seems like the smaller and medium-sized cities and towns often used to get the more adventurous and risk-taking commercial stations (WOXY in Ohio, WEQX in Vermont, the old WHFS in Annapolis/Baltimore), while NYC has the most boring commercial stations perhaps because they're so expensive to buy and require so much investment.

Thu. 4/10/14 10:23am
kat330:
@DCE: Did you catch them in any earlier time? As they article noted, they initially only did about 30 shows total that maybe 1,000 people saw.

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Thu. 4/10/14 10:25am
DCE:
no, I'm not aware if they'd ever come to Cleveland in the early incarnation

Thu. 4/10/14 10:35am
KP:
The second Blue Cheer album is pretty good too but then guitarist Leigh Stephens quit (never to be heard from again). They meandered around for while but went back to power trio, pretty great one too judging by bootlegs

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Thu. 4/10/14 10:35am
Irene Trudel:
Always liked this Secret Affair song! I might even have a copy somewhere.Thanks for playing it.

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Thu. 4/10/14 10:36am
Marcel M:
Randy Holden eventually joined Blue Cheer, but he never shined with them like he did on his solo record Population 2. That record is amazing.

Thu. 4/10/14 10:36am
KP:
No idea Dave Davies recorded on his own that far back, Joe

Thu. 4/10/14 10:53am
Alessia:
He's singing to his friend about the girl they are both in love with, Adriano is pretty sure that even if his friend is taking her away, she will run back to him, because he can take a body away but the mind stays where the person you love is. Adriano is also asking his friend to go away and close the door.

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Thu. 4/10/14 10:55am
Joe McG:
@Whoson: Sorry! The single is pressed off-centre and I tried to make it work. Oh well!

Thu. 4/10/14 10:57am
Alessia:
Yes, and "un'altra volta" in this case translates with "again" which means that he supposedly asked for his friend to go away a couple of times already.. You are welcome! :)

Thu. 4/10/14 10:57am
mariano:
@Joe: or, as we say in the South, don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

Thu. 4/10/14 11:07am
Whooda:
@Brian I'm pretty sure he had cool lowrider schwinn with the chain steering wheel, tassles on the hand grips and sweet chopper forks chromed up. The playing card in the spokes just made it *sound* like a motorcycle :)

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:30am
Cecile:
Brian, I think people figured out that blaming soldiers for the war was divisive and didn't address the real problem. It's nice to know that some things have improved.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:31am
Brian in UK:
.....and kiss the children for me.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:31am
Whooda:
@Brian as a country we had such a guilt complex for blaming the troops for the crimes of the politicians that we over-compensated with the troops coming back from the most recent politician's crimes. Seems we haven't learned much.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:33am
Brian in UK:
@Cecile now it is how to save money with a reserve force. We over here could learn from yourselves in this respect.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:34am
Whooda:
@Brian I take that back. We stopped the politicians from putting more criminal boots into Syria. Yeah for us.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:34am
PJ:
Brian, you are relying on what appears to be an urban myth; there is no evidence that returning Vietnam veterans were spat on or otherwise abused by war protestors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:35am
KP:
Oh, Jesse. I saw him when he was a draft dodger, and still a kid, at the Yellow Door in Montreal.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:35am
earrie:
It's interesting/disgusting to see the next wave of marketing effort toward the next big weapons/military spending.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:35am
Cecile:
Thanks Joe. It's hard to believe now the kind of warm press attention and coverage greeted Jesse when he returned from Canada in the late 70s.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:37am
Whooda:
@PJ you might want to check to see how long it took for a Vietnam memorial to be erected anywhere, much less Washington.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:37am
Cecile:
PJ, maybe the spitting didn't happen.
And a lot of vets joined the antiwar movement when they got back. I think more that it was they were ignored and kind of disrespected. People didn't want to face what happened.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:37am
northguineahills:
wait, How did Doug play this Laura track back in Oct?

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:38am
Cecile:
Even the more established vets organizations looked a bit askance at the 'nam vets. THey eventually warmed up (and died off, to be honest).

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:43am
Kurt Gottschalk:
ahhhh... i was walking down the street and couldn't check, but i knew i recognized sweet laura's voice.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:43am
PJ:
Whooda: the Vietnam War Memorial was dedicated in 1982, seven years after the end of the war (I happened to be there as well.) I'm not sure what your point is - it was decades before memorials to WWII or Korea were constructed.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:44am
Cecile:
this is a different side to Lone Justice. I really did not like their studio recordings

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:45am
Joe McG:
@Cecile: This is by far the best stuff they ever did and it FINALLY has come out! Hooray!

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:45am
Brian in UK:
Cecile I did not know, not another bluddy tribute show on FMU coming up. Never saw him but I felt he is a decent fella.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:46am
Kristin in Berlin:
Lovely set!!

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:47am
Cecile:
Joe, people were so afraid to make records that rocked on major labels in the 80s that it was a shame.The Scorchers and Lone Justice really suffered. And I might be a special snowflake, but I think Mitchell Froom was the worst thing to happen to roots-rock EVER.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:47am
PJ:
Cecile: People in general don't want to face what happens during war. There certainly isn't a terrible amount of interest in the US about what happened during the Iraq War or after or in Afghanistan now.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:50am
Whooda:
@PJ Wikileaks " Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from December 1956[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975" that's 29 years between the start of the war and the memorial.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:50am
Brian in UK:
@PJ Currently there is more interest being paid to the centenary of the First World War. Why do we love anniversaries with round numbers.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:50am
Cecile:
I loved the Georgia Satellites record so much as a reaction. They weren't the best band, but their production was PERFECT. And it rocked.

PJ: yeah, right now Gulf War and Iraq/Afghanistan vets are plot points on drama shows. But apart from the occasional thing on the Military Channel, there's next to no context about what's happening, how we are fighting, etc..

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:51am
Cecile:
Speaking of someone who should be on her deathbed...

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:52am
Brian in UK:
Jason Isbell has been giving it some context in his songs in recent years.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:52am
MikeY:
Great stuff Carlene Carter you dont hear her much outside country radio

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:52am
Guido from Cologne:
This Country section came just right for me here fighting problems @ work!
Thanks 4 the nice show Joe & CU next week!

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:53am
DCE:
wow it's been awhile since I heard any version of Green Green Grass

Thu. 4/10/14 11:56am
MikeY:
Thankx for a great show . Enjoyed it whilst doing taxes

Thu. 4/10/14 11:56am
PJ:
Whooda: I don't know where you're getting the "we blamed it all on the soldiers" bit. My recollection is that people, in general, blamed it all on the politicians and the generals.

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Thu. 4/10/14 11:56am
Joe McG:
Thanks, Brian, and ngh! In fact, thanks everybody for listening and commenting. See you next time! Have a great week.

Thu. 4/10/14 11:57am
mariano:
Thanks for a great show, Joe, and bye everyone!

Thu. 4/10/14 11:57am
nah:
great show mr. joe! good for painting wargame miniatures.